Date Published: 12 Mar 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Medtronic Australasia have already shown a great deal of support for the Flying Doctor in recent times, with a pledge of $40,000 including the installation of new lights at Packsaddle airstrip in far western NSW.
Date Published: 26 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Sydney’s rugby stars have joined forces with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) for the charity’s annual rugby fundraising dinner in April.
Date Published: 19 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
A new sealed airstrip unveiled at Collarenebri this week will make responding to medical emergencies much easier for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).
Date Published: 3 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
According to a report in The Australian newspaper last year Aboriginal children start off with better natural eyesight than non-indigenous children but by the time they reach adulthood they are six times more likely to be blind.
Date Published: 3 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
It’s not often we get called on to airlift one of our own, but that’s exactly what happened when RFDS Board Director David Honner suffered a near fatal chainsaw accident on his property near Dubbo.
Date Published: 13 Jan 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) South Eastern Section is disappointed to learn that the Victorian Government has not awarded the Victorian Air Ambulance contract to the RFDS.
Date Published: 8 Jan 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
While Santa kindly brought rain to the many drought affected areas across the South Eastern Section for Christmas, he didn't bring a welcome break for the hardworking staff of the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Date Published: 5 Jan 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Last October, on a day when the mercury topped 38
degrees, players took to the crease for the thirtieth Cooper Cup Cricket match.
Date Published: 1 Jan 2010
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Australia Day – a day to celebrate the best things about being an Australian: lamingtons, thongs, hills hoists, kangaroos, and of course, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).
The RFDS was founded over 80 years ago, and has grown to become an
Date Published: 4 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Book now for an exclusive outback tour for Royal Flying Doctor Service supporters and friends.
Date Published: 1 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) South Eastern Section is pleased with today’s announcement that it has been awarded the tender for Air Ambulance services in NSW.
Today’s announcement by NSW Minister for Health Carmel Tebbutt will ensure tha
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Date Published: 6 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Flying Doctor has strengthened its partnership with Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation in Broken Hill, helping to tackle the chronic diseases that affect the health of so many Aboriginal and non Aboriginal people in remote areas.
Date Published: 6 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Young mum Michelle Dowsett feels exceptionally fortunate to be alive and very grateful to both the NSW ambulance service and the RFDS for saving her life.
Date Published: 6 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Jake Williams loves a challenge. The Sydney based schoolboy has already received the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, he became a Young Endeavour in 2008 and earlier this year, when he was just 17, he embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. He rode a pos
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Date Published: 15 Oct 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Members of the Flying Doctor Society will have received a copy of the combined Annual Report/Honour Roll with this issue of the Flyer, showing strong growth for the RFDS South Eastern Section and a healthy surplus, all of which will be ploughed back
Date Published: 7 Oct 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Royal Flying Doctor Service hosted a men’s health night recently in White Cliffs, a tiny opal mining community in far western New South Wales where most locals live underground because of the intense heat.
Date Published: 18 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
June Files and her band of merry cyclists set off from Yunta on 26 July with two goals in mind. Firstly to complete a 955 km bike ride across the South Australian Outback and secondly to raise enough funds to buy the Flying Doctor a brand new incubat
Date Published: 18 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
With only one doctor in town on the day three year old William Madden suffered a major epileptic fit, his mum Joan felt desperately worried. “William has suffered fits before, but nothing as serious as this. We called for an ambulance and they tried
Date Published: 28 Aug 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
The Hungerford Rodeo and Field Day is a popular annual event, regularly attracting crowds of several hundred people. Last October, local builder Thomas Saunders was among them.
Date Published: 28 Aug 2009
Section - RFDS South Eastern Section
Our two new counsellors, based in Broken Hill, are gradually making headway with clients in remote areas, gaining the trust of people living in rural communities where independence is the norm.
Date Published: 23 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
RFDS Doctors and nurses were onboard rescue vessels to help swimmers during the race.
Date Published: 10 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Two aircraft pick up four men with burns after a pipe containing sulphuric acid burst at a chemical plant at Australind.
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Date Published: 9 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
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This stunning calendar features photography of RFDS in action around Australia.
Date Published: 4 Feb 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Royal Flying Doctor Service Rio Tinto Life Flight jet in the air
Date Published: 4 Jan 2010
Section - RFDS Western Operations
RFDS Rio Tinto Life Flight jet flies to Port Hedland in bid to save man's hands
Date Published: 17 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service will be sending its Rio Tinto Life Flight jet and a medical crew from Perth to evacuate a badly injured patient from Kununurra, after Tropical Cyclone Laurence forced the RFDS Derby base into lock down.
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Date Published: 14 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Busy Weekend for RFDS Jet
Date Published: 9 Dec 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Royal Flying Doctor Service called offshore after Seaman injured
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Date Published: 26 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service reaped the benefits of its new Rio Tinto Life Flight jet last night, saving about 17 hours of travel time and using one RFDS doctor and nurse crew instead of three.
Date Published: 10 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
“It was early in the morning and a Big Red male kangaroo came pelting down the dry creek bed towards me. He stopped and reared up onto his hind legs.”
‘RFDS on the road’ nurse Helen Collinson adds, “But then I saw that he was wearing a collar. I
Date Published: 4 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service has flown two women and two children to hospital in Perth with serious injuries after a traffic crash in Port Hedland.
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Date Published: 2 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
There are grave fears for 23 people missing after their boat sank hundreds of nautical miles off the Cocos Islands
Date Published: 2 Nov 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service’s Rio Tinto Life Flight Jet has flown from Perth to the Cocos Islands, and is currently conducting aerial searches for passengers who went missing after their boat sank in the ocean.
Date Published: 14 Oct 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Australia’s Royal Flying Doctor Service has made history by launching its first emergency medical jet service – and seriously ill or injured patients in regional areas will be the main beneficiaries.
Date Published: 29 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Maroomba Airlines in Perth has been awarded the contract to provide jet-related services for the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s new Rio Tinto Life Flight emergency medical jet, due to be launched next month.
Date Published: 20 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
In keeping with the traditions of the RFDS, which was founded by the Reverend John Flynn in 1928, the aircraft dedication – blessing of the aircraft to keep them safe and protected - will be conducted by the Reverend. Stuart Bonnington, Superintenden
Date Published: 8 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
Student nurse Samantha McCormack has faced some unique challenges during her work placement with the ‘RFDS on the road’ Primary Health Care Program in the Pilbara.
Date Published: 1 Sep 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) of Australia is pleased to announce the launch of its electronic Health for Remote Australia (eHRA) project. The eHRA project introduces a new Electronic Medical Record to the RFDS’s primary care services
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Date Published: 31 Jul 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The loss by the Royal Flying Doctor Service of a Victorian State Government contract for the air ambulance service in that State will have no impact on the operations of the RFDS in Western Australia or its contracts with the WA Government.
Date Published: 8 Jun 2009
Section - RFDS Western Operations
The efforts of employees from one of Australia’s largest gold companies Lihir Gold Limited (LGL) will make a big difference to patients who use the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia.